INDEX

Albrizzi, Countess, 300, 302 Allegra, Byron’s natural daughter, 272, 345-346 Bankes, William, 150 Becher, Rev. John, 44, 50 Benzoni, Countess, 300, 302-303 Bessborough, Lady, 148 Blessington, Lady, 336-337, 342, 352-353 “Bride of Abydos, The,” 170 Broglie, Duc de, 265 Byron, Admiral Lord, 6 Byron, Augusta. See Leigh, Augusta Byron, Captain George, the poet’s cousin, 209, 226 Byron, Captain, “Mad Jack,” the poet’s father, 6-7, 10-11 Byron, George Noel Gordon, Lord, ancestors, parents, and hereditary influences, 1-9; childhood and schooldays, 10-22; schoolboy love affairs, 23-34; life at Cambridge, and flirtations at Southwell, 35-49; revelry at Newstead, 50-62; the “grand tour,” 63-74; flirtations in Spain, 70-74; meeting with Mrs. Spencer Smith, 74-86; at Athens, 87; swims the Hellespont, 94; return to England, 101; death of his mother, 101; publishes “Childe Harold,” 103-111; recollections of Mary Chaworth, 114-126; infatuation of Lady Caroline Lamb, 128-145; acquaintance with Lady Oxford, 148-155; renewed relations with Mary Chaworth, 164-181; Marriage with Miss Milbanke, 182-193; disagreements, 194-207; Lady Byron demands separation, 208-226; scandalous accusations against him, 226-252; departure for the Continent, 253; acquaintance with Miss Clairmont, 256-263, 271-273; at Geneva, 264-276; in Italy, 277 et seq.; moral decline, 280-298; in the Venetian salons, 300; attachment to Countess Guiccioli, 302-328; revolutionary activities, 324-335; life at Pisa and Genoa, 336-355; enlists in the Greek cause, 356-373; illness and death, 369-373 Byron, John, Lord, 2 Byron, Lady, wife of the poet, marriage, 192; disagreements, 194-207; demands separation, 208-226; scandalous admissions, 226-252; mentioned, 339-341, 373. See also Milbanke, Anna Isabella Byron, Mrs., the poet’s mother, 10-17, 28, 31, 37-38, 42, 51, 101 Byron, Richard, Lord, 2 Byron, Sir John, of Claydon, 1 Byron, “the wicked Lord,” 4-6, 12, 15 Byron, William, Lord, 3 Canning, Sir Stratford, 96-98 Carlisle, Lord, 15-17, 58, 60-61 Carmarthen, Marchioness of, 6 Chateaubriand, Vicomte de, 64-66 Chaworth, Mary, 25, 27-34, 114-126, 156-157, 159-160, 164-181, 248-250, 310-311, 366-368, 375-376 Chaworth, William, 4 “Childe Harold,” 65-66, 102-111, 120 Clairmont, Jane, 256-263, 269-273, 284, 334, 346 Clermont, Mrs., 209, 219 Cogni, Margarita, 289-291 Cordova, Admiral, 69 Dallas, 103-105, 110 Davies, Scrope, 39, 118, 228, 255 “Don Juan,” 297, 342 Duff, Mary, 23 “English Bards and Scotch Reviewers,” 59-62 Forbes, Lady Adelaide, 166, 184 Galt, John, 71-74, 83, 98, 105-106 Gamba, Pietro, 362 Gifford, William, 152 Godwin, Mary, 257, 260, 263, 269-271, 273 Guiccioli, Count, 302, 306, 313-321 Guiccioli, Countess, 233, 302-323, 330-332, 336-337, 341-343, 350-355 Hanson, Charles, 150-152, 216, 219 Harness, Rev. William, 119, 127, 135 Hervey, Mrs., 265 Hobhouse, John Cam, 66, 68, 72, 87, 99, 153, 189-190, 208-209, 213, 218, 219, 221, 228, 255, 274, 277-278 Hodgson, 118-119, 123-124, 127, 144, 152, 216, 218, 228, 246 Holland, Lady, 132 Holland, Lord, 221 Hoppner, Consul-General at Venice, 288, 304, 307, 316-317 Horton, Wilmot, 224 “Hours of Idleness,” 21 Houson, Anne, 45 Hunt, Leigh, 228, 336-337, 349-352 Hutchinson, Colonel, 3 Jersey, Lady, 227-228 Kemble, Fanny, 141 Lamb, Lady Caroline, 106-107, 128-145, 146-147, 245 Lamb, William, afterwards Lord Melbourne, 128-131, 133-135, 142-143, 145-147 Lauriston, General, 76 Leigh, Medora, 177 Leigh, Augusta, 7, 37, 151-152, 155, 174-175, 197-199, 209, 212-213, 216, 219, 222-223, 234-252, 274, 291, 373 Lovelace, Lord, 206, 218, 235-240, 249-252 Lushington, Dr., 214, 217, 245-246 Macri, Theresa, 88-91 “Manfred,” 297 Mardyn, Mrs., 256 Mavrocordatos, 359, 361, 363 Medwin, 96, 138, 140-141, 144, 160-161, 195, 336 Melbourne, Lady, 128, 185-186, 221 Melbourne, Lord. See Lamb, William Milbanke, Anna Isabella, afterwards Lady Byron, 128, 155, 182-192 Milbanke, Sir Ralph, afterwards Noel, 191 Moore, Thomas, 123-124, 127, 131-132, 152, 154-155, 168, 184, 228, 315, 334 Morgan, Lady, 132 Murray, John, 151-152, 319, 346 Napoleon I., 75-77 Noel, Sir Ralph, 211, 214-216, 219. See also Milbanke, Sir Ralph Oxford, Lady, 148-157 Parker, Margaret, 25-26 Pedley, Mrs., 93-94 Robertson, Rev. F. W., 237, 251 Rogers, Samuel, 127, 131-132, 135-136, 228, 254 Salvo, Marquis de, 76-82 Segati, Marianna, 280-284, 287, 288-290 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 257, 260-261, 263-264, 269-271, 273, 293, 331-332, 336-337, 339, 348-349 Shipman, Thomas, 3 Sligo, Lord, 99 Smith, Florence Spencer, 74-86 Staël, Madame de, 162, 166, 264-265 Stanhope, Lady Hester, 95-96 Stendhal, 277-278 Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 233-239, 246 “Thyrza,” 121 Trelawny, 336-338, 359 Webster, James Wedderburn, 289, 293 Webster, Lady Frances, 158 Werry, Mrs., 91 Westmorland, Lady, 265 Williams, Captain, 348 Williams, Hugh W., 88-89

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Footnotes:

[1] One of the heads of the family was born before his father’s marriage, but he was subsequently given a title on his own merits.

[2] In Mr. Murray’s latest edition of “The Letters and Journals.”

[3] He would have preferred Oxford, but there was no set of rooms vacant at Christ Church.

[4] They intoned underneath his windows the supplication: Good Lort, deliver us!

[5] Musters took his wife’s name when he married her, though he afterwards resumed his own.

[6] In “Byron: the Last Phase.”

[7] Afterwards the Rev. William Harness, and a popular preacher.

[8] Sir Ralph Milbanke had taken the name of Noel on succeeding to some property.

[9] For the full text of the letter see Appendix.

[10] It is doubtful whether Shelley was at Marlow at this date, so that Miss Clairmont’s memory of the place of meeting was probably at fault.

[11] Southey, among others, circulated the scandal.

[12] Odysseus, who was in Attica.